Another model I started making nearly three years ago was a paper geodesic octahedron.

Or, if you please, a geodesic hexahedron (cube).

It's a dual model because the model is made up of forty-eight triangles and you can look at it as eight faces of six triangles (octahedron), or six faces of eight triangles (hexahedron/cube).
This was another pretty simple model to make, with the net taken from Vince Matsko. You'll need to print eight pages of that net, but there's a catch: you need to make half of the triangles "left-handed" and half of the triangles "right-handed" - folding the strips "inwards" for half, and "outwards" for the other half. If you want to make a two-colour model, as I have above, you'll need to make all the triangles of one colour left-handed, and all the triangles of the other colour right-handed. Again, I stuffed this up when I was making it, and so I've had to make two models - oops!
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